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Who emphasized that we repress anxiety-arousing memories?


A) Hermann Ebbinghaus
B) Elizabeth Loftus
C) Karl Dallenbach
D) Sigmund Freud

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The eerie sense of having previously experienced a current situation is known as


A) imagination inflation.
B) positive transfer.
C) proactive interference.
D) déjà vu.

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Many students review course material at various times during a semester so they will be prepared for the final exam.These students are especially likely to retain the information far into the future.This best illustrates the value of


A) distributed practice.
B) implicit memory.
C) procedural memory.
D) the self-reference effect.

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Using the mnemonic ROY G.BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of


A) the testing effect.
B) acronyms.
C) the spacing effect.
D) the peg-word system.

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Although Yusef was having difficulty recalling the capital of Spain,he quickly and correctly identified it after being given a list of cities in Spain.Yusef's initial inability to recall the answer was due to a failure in


A) implicit memory.
B) storage.
C) encoding.
D) retrieval.

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The letters Y,M,O,M,R,E are presented.Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the word "MEMORY." This provides an illustration of


A) chunking.
B) automatic processing.
C) the spacing effect.
D) the peg-word system.

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Answering questions about what she had read in her psychology textbook improves Shauna's memory of the material more effectively than rereading the textbook material.This best illustrates


A) the peg-word system.
B) the self-reference effect.
C) automatic processing.
D) the testing effect.

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Instead of simply repeating a series of numbers he wants to remember,David mentally associates the numbers with meaningful dates such as his friends' birthdays.This best illustrates


A) chunking.
B) automatic processing.
C) procedural memory.
D) deep processing.

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Stressful life experiences such as being raped are not likely to be


A) encoded.
B) repressed.
C) stored.
D) retrieved.

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When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures,she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents,her husband,and the early years of her marriage.The picture served as a powerful


A) memory trace.
B) implicit memory.
C) serial position effect.
D) retrieval cue.

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Repeated rehearsal of your teachers' lectures and reading assignments leads to lasting memories thanks to the neural process of


A) ECT.
B) LTP.
C) encoding specificity.
D) priming.

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Encoding words based on the appearance of the word's letters involves


A) the spacing effect.
B) shallow processing.
C) the peg-word system.
D) distributed practice.

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Authors and songwriters sometimes think an idea came from their own creative imagination,when in fact they are unintentionally plagiarizing something they earlier read or heard.This best illustrates


A) implicit memory.
B) source amnesia.
C) proactive interference.
D) déjà vu.

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The use of acronyms to improve one's memory of unfamiliar material best illustrates the value of


A) chunking.
B) the peg-word system.
C) distributed practice.
D) the self-reference effect.

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Some of the information in our ________ memory is encoded into ________ memory.


A) iconic;short-term
B) short-term;sensory
C) working;echoic
D) long-term;iconic

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The amygdala boosts activity in the brain's memory-forming areas when stimulated by


A) the basal ganglia.
B) the cerebellum.
C) stress hormones.
D) propranolol.

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Rabbits fail to learn a conditioned eyeblink response when the function of different pathways in their ________ is surgically disrupted.


A) hypothalamus
B) amygdala
C) hippocampus
D) cerebellum

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According to Allen Baddeley,we consciously process incoming auditory and visual-spatial information in our ________ memory.


A) implicit
B) working
C) procedural
D) echoic

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The use of mnemonics such as the peg-word system illustrates


A) automatic processing.
B) the self-reference effect.
C) effortful processing.
D) echoic memory.

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The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to


A) encoding failure.
B) storage decay.
C) anterograde amnesia.
D) proactive interference.

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